Lina K 20/08/2024 Lina K 20/08/2024

Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression & Mass Imprisonment

This report explores how China’s systematic, large-scale imprisonment of Uyghurs not only amounts to a crime against humanity, but also dangerous lawfare at mass scale.

Lina K 21/11/2023 Lina K 21/11/2023

Uyghur filmmaker tells court he was tortured into confession

The trial comes amid the ongoing arrest and jailing by Chinese authorities of Uyghurs who have studied or traveled abroad, and who have been accused of engaging in terrorist or separatist activities.

Lina K 25/09/2022 Lina K 25/09/2022

The Black Gate: A Uyghur Family's Story, Part 2

In the second and final part of NPR’s series "The Black Gate: A Uyghur's Family's Story," a Uyghur man returns to China to find his children who've been sent to "boarding schools" and his wife who's spent two years in prison.

Lina K 31/08/2022 Lina K 31/08/2022

OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang

"Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-’extremism’ strategies,” the U.N. office said in the report.

Lina K 19/07/2022 Lina K 19/07/2022

Hikvision Interrogation Solution For PRC Police

Hikvision has a custom PRC China interrogation solution that integrates with tiger chairs, metal restraining devices used by Chinese police to lock detainees' hands and feet while they are being interrogated, IVPM reported today.

Lina K 17/07/2022 Lina K 17/07/2022

Chinese-Kazakh Writer, Businesswoman Struggles To Rebuild Life After Abuse In Xinjiang Camp

Before she was imprisoned in her native Xinjiang, Zhazira Asenqyzy was known as a poet and writer as well as a successful businesswoman. But her world was turned upside down in May 2017 when she was taken from her family home and thrown into one of Xinjiang's notorious internment camps.

Lina K 12/04/2022 Lina K 12/04/2022

Exclusive: Former Xinjiang prisoner arrives in U.S. as key witness to abuses

A Christian Chinese national who spent 10 months in a Xinjiang detention camp has arrived in the United States after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying by U.S. lawmakers, human rights activists and international lawyers.

Lina K 18/02/2022 Lina K 18/02/2022

Immersive simulation attempts to pierce apathy over the Uyghur genocide

Uyghur students in Istanbul are attempting to make people viscerally feel their ongoing genocide. They’ve done that with immersive simulation rooms, and may have, to a high degree, succeeded. “For the simulation part, we want visitors to actually feel the experience,” said Idris Ayas, 29, who came to Istanbul to study law 10 years ago. “By touching the Tiger Chair, by visiting the forced cotton-picking farm, the forced abortion room and the concentration camp cells, visitors actually feel that these things are really happening in 2022.”

Lina K 28/12/2021 Lina K 28/12/2021

Uyghur forced laborer died at factory in China’s Xinjiang, officials say

A Uyghur woman who had been interned in a detention camp in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region died of a stomach ailment in September 2020 while performing forced labor at a sock factory adjacent to the internment facility, RFA has learned.

Lina K 22/11/2021 Lina K 22/11/2021

Genocidal processes: social death in Xinjiang

This paper builds on critical genocide studies literature to historically contextualize China’s “fusion” policy used to justify its policies of extralegal internment camps and inter-generational separation in Xinjiang.

Lina K 05/10/2021 Lina K 05/10/2021

Some are just psychopaths': Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs

"We took (them) all forcibly overnight," he said. "If there were hundreds of people in one county in this area, then you had to arrest these hundreds of people." The ex-detective turned whistle-blower asked to be identified only as Jiang, to protect his family members who remain in China. In a three-hour interview conducted in Europe where he is now in exile, Jiang revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.

Lina K 10/09/2021 Lina K 10/09/2021

The Uyghur Tribunal - Hearing Session 2

The Uyghur Tribunal was launched in September 2020 as an independent people’s tribunal to investigate ‘ongoing atrocities and possible Genocide’ against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim Populations. The Uyghur Tribunal, which has no powers of sanction or enforcement, will confine itself to reviewing evidence in order to reach an impartial and considered judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC. There will be two sets of Hearings, at which witnesses will present live evidence. These will be open to the public and streamed live. The first hearings took place between 4 and 7 June 2021. Click here to view recorded livestreams of the second set of hearings from 10 to 13 September 2021.

Lina K 01/08/2021 Lina K 01/08/2021

CCP: 100 Years of Suppression

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the CCP’s ambitions, it is important to analyze both the historical and current injustices perpetrated by the Chinese government, particularly in Tibet, Xinjiang , and Hong Kong — three regions where the CCP’s state-sanctioned policies appear to be the most widespread and concerning.

Lina K 21/07/2021 Lina K 21/07/2021

China Can Lock Up A Million Muslims In Xinjiang At Once

This investigation reveals the full capacity of China's previously secret network of prisons and detention camps in Xinjiang: enough space to detain more than 1 million people.

Lina K 10/06/2021 Lina K 10/06/2021

New Report Details Firsthand Accounts Of Torture From Uyghur Muslims In China

A new report from Amnesty International details systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution against people in Xinjiang province, as well as extensive cover-up efforts by the Chinese government.

Lina K 10/06/2021 Lina K 10/06/2021

China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity

Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region face systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said as it launched a new report and campaign today.

Lina K 10/06/2021 Lina K 10/06/2021

“Like We Were Enemies In a War” - China’s Mass Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang

This report, based on first-hand testimonies and satellite imagery data analysis, gives an extensive account of life inside the internment camps.

Lina K 04/06/2021 Lina K 04/06/2021

The Uyghur Tribunal - Hearing Session 1

The Uyghur Tribunal was launched in September 2020 as an independent people’s tribunal to investigate ‘ongoing atrocities and possible Genocide’ against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim Populations. The Uyghur Tribunal, which has no powers of sanction or enforcement, will confine itself to reviewing evidence in order to reach an impartial and considered judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC. There will be two sets of Hearings, at which witnesses will present live evidence. These will be open to the public and streamed live. Recorded livestreams of the first set of hearings from 4 to 7 June 2021 are available here.

Lina K 06/05/2021 Lina K 06/05/2021

The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps

“I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they are in. It is so easy to suffocate us with the demons of powerlessness, shame, and guilt. But we aren't the ones who should feel ashamed.”

Lina K 19/04/2021 Lina K 19/04/2021

“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots” - China’s Crimes against Humanity

This report outlines the evidence for the conclusion that the Chinese government has committed crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population.

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